Britain can still escape Starmer’s dreadful Chagos deal
The government’s latest difficulties in the House of Lords over plans to surrender the Chagos islands is another humiliation for…
Trump is winning the Maduro meme war
The Vietnam war was the first Americans watched on their nightly TV news, the Gulf War the first that could…
The British state radicalised me
The liberal state and its journalistic and academic outriders fret constantly about the radicalising influence of under-regulated social media, but…
How to stop the next massacre of British Jews
No one remembers the ones they catch in time. Walid Saadaoui and Amar Hussein will quickly be forgotten and so…
Starmer has nothing going for him
Why would anyone support this government? Keir Starmer has a near-invincible majority, a divided opposition and 14 years of Tory-managed…
America is increasingly worried about free speech in the UK
Of the many political headaches Keir Starmer does not need right now, further American warnings that Britain is suppressing speech…
Why is the Scottish government so afraid of a grooming gangs inquiry?
The Scottish parliament has voted in favour of allowing government ministers to mislead it. That is the effect of a…
Why was this innocent doctor ever investigated for her ‘anti-trans’ posts?
This one has everything: drag queens, swastikas, X and freedom of speech. Dr Anne Woodhouse is a clinical psychologist in…
Scotland is getting sicker
Scotland’s NHS is in crisis and Scotland’s government is in denial. A new study by the former head of the Royal College…
Ireland should venerate Chaim Herzog
The Irish are in many ways the ideal neighbours. They’re quiet, industrious, peaceful, send their best talents to London, and…
Yes, John Swinney is a head of government
This week Catherine Connolly, the newly elected President of Ireland, welcomed John Swinney, First Minister of Scotland, to the Áras…
Make Gordon McKee a minister
With his viral video explaining debt-to-GDP ratio through the medium of biscuits, Gordon McKee is putting the ‘nom’ into economics.…
The global cottage industry gaming America’s culture wars
It is the 9/11 of the blue ticks, the Hindenburg of the grifters, the dotcom bubble of the slop-peddlers. The…
Northern Ireland’s Christian RE crackdown should trouble us all
Schools in Northern Ireland which teach pupils that Christianity is true are breaking the law. That is the ruling of…
Helen Webberley is terrifying
Ben Leo’s interview with Helen Webberley is a chilling dramatisation of what happens when ideology meets reality – and ideology…
The return of migration centrism
None of Shabana Mahmood’s asylum reforms is as radical as the terms in which she is talking about this issue.…
Scotland does not need an LGBTQIA+ festival
Around this time of year TV schedules groan under a blizzard of feel-good festive movies, all of which share essentially…
How a right-wing putsch felled the infallible BBC
By now you’ll know all about the crisis at the BBC, especially if you watch or read or listen to…
Zohran Mamdani will not be a radical mayor
Zohran Mamdani’s election as mayor of New York City has prompted triumphalism in his supporters and despondency among his detractors.…
Police Scotland has lost its way
One of the most fascinating cases of institutional self-harm in modern Britain is policing. Not just the oft-criticised Met (though…
Why doesn’t Kate Forbes want the SNP to talk about currency?
What’s the Gaelic for ‘Streisand effect’? I would guess buaidh Streisand but someone should ask Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch MSP…
The hate-filled campaign against professor Ben-Gad
If I didn’t tell you professor Michael Ben-Gad was an Israeli, you could probably figure it out from his response…
Anti-Jewish sentiment has poisoned our police
Amid the grim fluorescence of a police interview suite, a glimpse of where we are and where we are heading.…
Middle East experts got Trump all wrong
Whenever Donald Trump proposes a policy that runs counter to the progressive consensus, there are three stages of response: it’ll…
Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Prize for his Hamas-Israel deal
In confirming the Israel-Hamas peace deal on Truth Social last night, Donald Trump referenced the seventh Beatitude from the Gospel…
